Network accounts instead of Mobile accounts

All of a sudden with any of our images and fresh build form CD, once joined machines are placed on the domain. When a network account logs in to them they get netowrk accounts instead of mobile accounts. Not sure what caused it but looking for an swer to why. Anyone have any ideals? Running Snow Leopard in an Active Directory environment.
Thanks,
Indiana

you set up rules that control the syncs so you can decide when, how often and what gets synced.
The time it takes to sync at login/log out is the only real frustration with mobile homes.
Basically you have two types of sync: login/logout and background
Login/Logout happens when you log in or log out (obviously!) and is meant to be used to sync the library and other files that can't sync while they are in use.
Background sync happens on a schedule that you can set, and is meant to sync the rest of your home folder except Library and microsoft user data
You can adapt the rules however you like though, and exclude individual files, folder or sets of folders from either or both of the syncs
Its best not to be logged in to the same user at the same time on multiple macs, cos it could get into a real mess, you would log out of Mac A then log into Mac B and because Mac A completed its sync on log out then Mac B will have all the upto date files.
If you did log into the same account on different macs at the same time it would show you syncing conflicts and you would be given the choice of saying the correct file is on This Mac or the Network Home

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